Airey brothers
Fred and Willis Airey went to war. Willis survived, returned to University and became a prominent historian and lecturer.
Eric Astley
Eric Astley is one of five Collegians known to have enlisted with the British Section of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
Athletics team 1914
The entire 1914 Easter Tournament athletics team from Auckland University College served in the War.
Auckland Infantry
Like others in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, these four Collegians took in the sights of Cairo while at camp...
Daphne Commons
Daphne Commons was among the first 50 NZ Army Nursing Service nurses to go on active service, leaving on 8 April 1915.
Leslie Comrie
Leslie Comrie was a central figure in the history of the Roll of Honour before he too went off to war.
Vieira Currie
The war diary of medical student Vieira Currie gives a fascinating insight into his work as a medic.
Leslie Darrow
Fourth-year law student, Leslie Darrow, was serving as an Orderly Sergeant when he died at Chunuk Bair in August 1915.
Norman Davenport
Norman Davenport served with the Royal Navy Air Service patrolling the English coast for German airships.
James Dinneen
Teacher James Dinneen was one of 19 Collegians killed in northern France during the first Battle of the Somme in 1916.
S. Howard Ellis
Shot down over France, pilot Howard Ellis endured 17 months as a prisoner of war before being repatriated and rejoining the war effort.
William Forrest Fowlds
William Forrest Fowlds fought at the Somme, Messines and Passchendaele with the 4th Battalion NZ Rifle Brigade.
Herbert Goldstein
Surgeon Herbert Goldstein served as the 2nd Wellington Battalion’s Regimental Medical Officer on the Western Front.
Eric Goodfellow
Medical student Eric Goodfellow was killed in Mesopotamia in March 1916 while serving with the Royal Field Artillery.
Arthur Gray
Arthur Gray spent 14 months as a POW in Germany after a night-time patrol near Messines, Belgium ended in his capture.
Horace Hunt
Detained in Germany as an enemy alien, musician Horace Hunt spent the war in the Ruhleben civilian internment camp.
Alton Clive Johns
Clive Johns was mistakenly listed as killed in action after the Battle of Messines in June 1917.
Albert Jones
Held in Special Collections, the wartime papers of Albert Jones offer a fascinating insight into his years as a civilian internee.
John Thomson Macky
Reverend John Thomson Macky was a field secretary with the YMCA in England during the War.
Frank George Massey
The son of Prime Minister William Massey, Frank Massey served with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade and Lancaster Fusiliers.
Robert McFarland
Robert McFarland served in Samoa and Egypt but it was not until he reached France that he saw his first real action.
Herbert Milnes
The principal of the Training College and education lecturer at Auckland University College volunteered in early 1916.
Harry Northcroft
Lawyer Harry Northcroft was killed in May 1915 during the Auckland Mounted Rifles first engagement with Turkish forces.
Seymour Kenneth Phillips
Conductor and musician Seymour Kenneth Phillips was a member of the New Zealand Divisional Entertainers during the War.
Harold Vivian Ramsay
Vivian Ramsay died in France serving in the Medical Corps after resigning his military commission as a conscientious objector.
Frederick Rands
Chaplain Frederick Rands died from influenza in 1919 while stationed in Germany as part of the occupation force.
Herbert Richardson
Lieutenant Herbert Richardson was killed during the landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, as were two other Collegians.
Charles Rope
Teacher Charles Rope died in the Battle of Rafa after surviving earlier battles in the Sinai and Palestine campaign and Gallipoli.
Winifred Scott
Auckland nurse Winifred Merelina Scott served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in Egypt.
Charles Southey
Headmaster Charles Southey earned a Military Cross and Military Medal with the 1st New Zealand Cyclist Company.
Eric Hardwick Tayler
Eric Tayler had just embarked on a career as a professional soldier when war broke out.
Acland Thomas
An architect, Acland Withiel Thomas served with the Field Engineers at Gallipoli and in France, where he earned a Military Cross.
University debaters 1915
All seven of these 1915 Auckland University College debaters enlisted. Only five survived their twenties.
Ruth Utting
During her three-year service, Sister Ruth Utting nursed in hospitals in Egypt and England and on troopships and trains.
Hugh Vickerman
Engineer Hugh Vickerman took command of the New Zealand Tunnellers as they dug tunnelling systems for the Battle of Arras.
Alan Wallace
Alan Wallace was one of four Rhodes Scholars from Auckland University College to serve in the First World War.
Frank Wilson
All Black and teacher Frank Wilson was in his battalion's rear-guard during the Gallipoli evacuation. He died at the Somme.